For Yáo Shuō, escaping the Suppression Pagoda was far more important than defeating the Corpse Ghoul King. If she hadn't needed the Tower Spirit to activate the altar for her departure, she would have slipped away long ago. Forced to submit to others, however, she had no choice and could only put up a halfhearted performance, using barely twenty percent of her strength.
Faced with the combined forces of two Integration-stage cultivators and Lěng Yè, the Corpse Ghoul King's defeat was a foregone conclusion. Yet he refused to accept it. Having survived in this micro-world for a millennium and climbed from a weak ghoul to become the Corpse Ghoul King, he had poured countless efforts into his rise and could not stomach such an ending.
The overwhelming gap in combat power forced the Corpse Ghoul King to face reality.
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